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Tim Hanlon

Mum's kidnap horror as she and baby held alongside dead bodies by Russians

A mum has told how she was kidnapped along with her one-year-old baby by Russian troops and held in horror conditions after her husband and 12-year-old daughter were killed by shelling.

Viktoria Kovalenko said that she and her baby Varvara were held captive in a basement of a school and saw people dying around her as there was no medical care.

People used coal to write the names of the dead so that they could be put on their graves.

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